Ignoring InstructionsWhen I was small, a friend of mine waved a big plastic bottle at me and asked me if I "wanted some drinking yoghurt?" I pointed out the "do not drink" label, but no, he was convinced this was a big jug of a particularly strange, liquid yoghurt that was briefly popular in the 70s.
He was sick for hours, after consuming a suprisingly large quantity of washing liquid.
What instructions have you ignored?
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chthonic, Thu 4 May 2006, 11:24)
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VarnishThis recollection triggered by the use of "Use in a Well Ventilated Area" in an earlier post...
My Dad used to be involved in the narrowboat business, and one of the crap jobs we had to do over the winter was to reapply varnish to all of the woodwork inside the boats. Now, as anyone who has ever been in a narrowboat will attest, about 90% of everything that's not the windows is wood, including floors and ceiling.
It's also a cold day. And raining. So you don't want the doors open. And muggins here gets £5 for doing it (which was a lot of money in those days).
I was mentally on the ceiling by the end, and was still breathing out varnish fumes a week later.
Mind you, never had any mould or woodworm in my lungs since then, so I guess it worked out for the best...
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 9 May 2006, 16:01,
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